About Optics & Photonics TopicsOSA Publishing developed the Optics and Photonics Topics to help organize its diverse content more accurately by topic area. This topic browser contains over 2400 terms and is organized in a three-level hierarchy. Read more.

Topics can be refined further in the search results. The Topic facet will reveal the high-level topics associated with the articles returned in the search results.

Abstract

Self-phase modulation (SPM) effect is analyzed in a dispersion-compensated transmission using optical BPSK single sideband (SSB) modulation. The effect was evaluated numerically using both waveform degradation and spectral degradation, clarifying that waveform degradation is induced dominantly by peak power of the quadrature component of a Hilbert-transformed signal. Eye-opening degradation of BPSK-SSB is induced by lower fiber input power than the conventional double sideband (DSB) case because the SSB-homodyne system is sensitive to phase error resulting from SPM. Spectral degradation from SPM has two phases with increasing fiber input power. In the first phase, the sideband in the suppressive frequency region expands with increasing optical power. In the second phase, the spectral envelope in the non-suppressive frequency region becomes broad, and its shape is somewhat varied.